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Kathleen Rose Johnson

Professor of Earth System Science

Earth System Science

kathleen.johnson@uci.edu

(949) 824-6174, 1060

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Researches climate change in the deep past, looking at ancient chemicals preserved in caves in places like Laos in order to reconstruct past climates.

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Climate, Minorities in STEM

Roberto Pelayo

Associate Teaching Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

rcpelayo@uci.edu

Pelayo leads Latinx education outreach at Physical Sciences. "I have partnered with the Latinx resource center to create this thing, it’s entirely in Spanish, called 'Mermeladas de Estudio.' It’s Spanish for “study jams,” he said.

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Minorities in STEM

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The Arctic’s greening, but it won’t save us

The Arctic is getting greener as the climate warms — but it’s not greening fast enough to absorb very much carbon dioxide, Boston University and UC Irvine scientists find.

Apr 29, 2021

Can something the size of a few washing machines find the biggest thing in the universe?

UCI physicists have designed and built a new particle detector called FASER that could lift the veil on one of the universe’s most enduring mysteries.

Dec 7, 2020